Rads Residents, how much call are we doing?
Does this seem on par with what you do at your program, or is it significantly different?
What we do at my program has always *felt* like a lot of call, but I have no idea where other programs are at, and whether we're average. Knowledge is power! I've been thinking back and I think my program makes us very capable radiologists by the time we're done, but good lord do we need more residents added to our program. We've asked multiple times and it always gets shot down.
Our night float is a 12 hour shift, as is our day call. Our short call is a 3 bridge on the weekdays from 5p-8p. We don't split call into body/neuro or anything like that, it's just 1 resident on at a time. It's a rare treat when you're not absolutely slammed with work on call.
Our R1s start buddy call in mid January and get 2 weeks of short call and 2 weekends paired with a senior resident to teach / help out.
This is us currently:
R1 -- Buddy call: 2 weeks short call and 1 or 2 weekends, then independently do 4 weekends, 4 weeks of short call
R2 -- 4 weeks of nights, 5 weekends, 3 weeks of short call (M to F). The R2s cover any holidays as well, which typically is an extra 2 or 3 days of day call per year.
R3 -- 4 weeks of nights, 4 weekends, 3 weeks of short call
R4 -- 6 weeks of nights, 1 weekend, 2 weeks of short call
This has increased from before we lost a resident. When we were at full complement, it was:
R1 -- unchanged
R2 -- unchanged
R3 -- 4 nights, 3 weekends, 2 weeks short call (one less week short call)
R4 -- 5 nights, 3 weekends, 2 weeks short call (one less week of nights, but 2 more call weekends of buddy call with an R1).